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Hello, we are Commie, a group of folks who like to fansub in our spare time. This is the page where we tell you how awesome we are.

Our primary purpose is to provide the best translated English subtitles to fans of the anime community, while remaining within the limits of manageable video and audio quality and file size. In such a daring pursuit, we found that certain compromises and priorities had to be made, chief among them legibility, comprehension and flow over more literal interpretations, the adoption of newer technologies for more efficient file sizes, and the unfortunate-but true fact that the majority of our viewers are speakers of American English.

We seek to provide these translations in as timely a manner as possible, though never discounting human and mechanical limitations. Also, as forward-thinkers, we also seek to promote the very active field of video playback development, and thus will always seek to utilize the cutting-edge technologies of the encoding community.

Though unfortunate, we realize this does incur a cost; a small but very vocal proportion of our viewers do not agree with our approach to language, nor our utilization of avant-garde technologies. Loathe as we are to possibly alienating our loyal friends in the community, we have come to two very simple conclusions: to the former, we suggest seeking out alternative translation efforts; the latter, we suspect that the private sector of anime viewership is more than capable and willing to accommodate you.

Getting our releases:

Our releases are indexed on TokyoToshokan, and hosted on Nyaa.si. If you can’t find something on one of those, come tell us and we’ll get it to you.

Notice to international subbers: do whatever you want with our scripts and/or releases. We’re not able or willing to stop you. We only ask that you don’t make trouble for us.

So you’d rather we didn’t sub it like how they would actually talk in English and instead use some accepted level of English that’s completely unrealistic but everyone is used to because bad subs have been using it for years?

why do u guys ban people on the IRC for the stupidest reasons?
its like you don’t care about your fans at all.
with the way you treat people awaiting your new subs, its sickening to see you guys ban someone for a function on your IRC that you guys installed yourselves.
its like you guys take this like its a joke, and from what I see of how others have rated your subs, im considering after OreImo2, I might just go to another sub site.

Thanks you Commie for subbing those awesome animes like SAO or Toradora!! I really enjoy and love your high quality subs. Typesetting them so that they look nearly exactly just like the jap ones… w-o-w!!! Thanks a lot!!!^^

I’ve watched a lot of anime for someone who knows very little about different sub groups. Used to being spoon fed good anime and good subbers.
I feel pretty lucky stumbling across you guys and the awesome effort you put into your releases.

Commie, thank you very much for taking your time subtitling Berserk Movie III, you just rescued us from those “Google translations” flooding that movie over nyaatorrent. With your permission i would really like translate it to spanish using your subs, of course all credits and merits goes for you. Thx in advance.

Hello commiesubs josh here, can you put song subtitles on the incoming hyperdimension neptunia episode 3? (not just english one like this) Domo arigatou~, Thank you. (only on op and ed songs) please consider this and if you don’t want to then it’s okay, btw thank you very much for subbing animes hope you be the best subgroup! cheers :)

At the risk of sounding ungrateful for the gargantuan efforts of all groups such as CommieSubs, I only have one question … is it a significant advantage to encode H.264 material using Level 5.0 instead of Level 4.1? I find the differences to be minimal myself, except for the fact that Panasonic TVs only have enough CPU horsepower to work with Level 4.1 at most.

While I do transcode mine to comply with L4.1, it would be nice if this one step could be avoided.

– Hey Commie. Thanks for all you do. I do appreciate you picking up titles others don’t or don’t sub as well. I don’t mind some trolling, I mean you are offering it for free, so whose entitled right?
– You and a few other sub groups have given me the opportunity to view things I’d never otherwise have seen or known about. So thanks, and I hope despite some hatin’ tryhard neckbeards or total ass kissers. you guys will continue to provide all that you do. And I hope others continue to enjoy watching new anime or old alike.

The BDMV was posted way before that, and I’m pretty sure our own encodes were done before then too. The translator just has a lot of other things to translate, so he hasn’t had time to work on them yet.

I am not sure why people bitch so much on here when you guys don’t have to sub shit for anyone but yourselves really. Well, I say kudos to you. Commie is consistently my favorite subber to go to. You guys rock!

Hello,
I wanted to ask if you could put your JoJo Bluray Releases on your IRC XDCC Bots. Right now, there are like only 2-3 BD JoJo episodes on Tori and the rest is missing. If you could do that, that’d be really nice :-)

why don’t you guys host you and nyaa host your websites in china. i don’t think japan and funi can reach us there. 8/10 recommended course of action. upside is you’d truly be commies then, i’m sure the now forgotten creator would be extremely happy!